Programme
15th meeting AESOP Planning & Complexity Workgroup
Conference venue: Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University
Day 1: Wednesday 12th April
13:00 – 13:30 Coffee and registration
13:30 – 13:45 Opening and welcome by dr.ir. Beitske Boonstra and dr. Ward Rauws
13:45 – 14:30 Keynote Speech by Prof. Robert Geyer:
“Complexity, Pragmatism and Policy: Can we keep things simple?”
14:30 – 15.30 Round Table discussion “The ability to co-evolve” (Moderator: Hannes Couvreur)
Participants: Prof. Robert Geyer, Prof. Luuk Boelens, Prof. Gert de Roo and Prof. Filip de Rynck;
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Session 1: Transitions and Co-evolution (Session-chair: Sharon Wohl)
- Wim van der Knaap & Joa Maouche – Are Transition Management Theory and Strategic Planning Complementary?
- Gert de Roo – Spatial Planning and the Complexity of Turbulent, Open Environments: About Purposeful Interventions in a World of Non-linear Change
- Sharon Zivkovic – The Co-evolution of Spatial Planning and Social Entrepreneurship in a Complex World
- Barbara Tempels – Resilience From a Co-evolutionary Perspective: The Example of Flooding and the Built Environment
Day 2: Thursday 13th April
08:30 – 09:00 Coffee
09:00 – 10:00 Session 2: Thought Experiments (Session-chair: Paulo Silva)
- Sharon Wohl – Deploying CAS dynamics within the Urban Fabric: A Series of Thought Experiments that Illuminate Possible Trajectories
- Jenni Partanen, Annuska Rantanen & Seija Ridell – Beyond Twittering: Networked Cyborg Avatars as a Challenge for Urban Planning Theory
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 3: Beyond Fixed Regimes (Session-chair: Ward Rauws)
- Yaara Manor-Rosner, Sayfan Borghini, Beitske Boonstra & Paulo Silva – Place Making in a Contested City: A Story of Epigenetic Tactics in Contemporary Jerusalem
- Suzanne Van Brussel – Large Infrastructure Projects Bring Vested Planning Approaches to Their Knees: The Encounter with Complexity
- Stefan Verweij, Katharina Gugerell & Robin Neef – Between Aspiration and Reality: Exploring Literature and Actual Practices in Infrastructure Living Labs
12:00 – 13:00 Walk to and Lunch Break at “Het Geuzenhuis” (Kantienberg 9, Ghent)
13:00 – 13:45 Lecture City of Ghent: “Dealing with Complexity in Urban Renewal”
13:45 – 15:15 Guided walk through Overpoort Neighborhood
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:45 Workshop “Overpoort: Working with Complexity”
17:45 – 19:00 Social Drinks
Day 3: Friday 14th April
08:30 – 09:00 Coffee
09:00 – 10:30 Session 4: Co-evolution between Formal and Informal (Session-chair: Sharon Zivkovic)
- Wenwen Sun – Co-evolution of Collectives: In Seek of a Position for Complexity-thinking in Chinese Urban Planning Processes
- Paulo Silva & Helena Farrall – Planning Institutions and Informality: Change with Co-evolutionary Insights
- Maisa Totri-Fakhoury & Nurit Alfasi – From Abstract Principles to Specific Urban Form: Applying Complexity Theory for Analyzing Arab-Palestinian Towns in Israel
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 5: Facilitating Change (Session-chair: Luuk Boelens)
- Ward Rauws – Embracing uncertainty without abandoning planning: Exploring an adaptive planning approach for guiding urban transformations
- Nurit Alfasi – Toward Co-evolution in Planning: The Crucial Role of Mutual Agreement
- Hannes Couvreur, Beitske Boonstra & Griet Hanegreefs – Changing the Landscape, One Conversation at a Time: Solution Focused Brief Therapy as a Complexity-sensitive Approach to Spatial Planning
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break @ De Vooruit (Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23)
13:30 – 15:00 Session 6: Simulation versus Real: What and how can we learn? (Session-chair: Jenni Partanen)
- Sofia Pagliarin & Lasse Gerrits – Real vs. Simulated Agents in Complex Urban Trajectories
- Angela Ballard – Disrupting Complexity in Planning
- Cristina Ampatzidou – What Can Planners Learn from Emergent Gameplay?
15:00 – 16:30 Coffee break and Round-up session
